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Cc: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:25:56PM -0400, alexus typed:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> wrote:
> > On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (steve@ibctech.ca) wrote:
> >
> >> > The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III
> >> > processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB.

> i'd go w/ 8.0 worse case scenario 7.2
> and put more memory in that machine it's embarassing :)

CPU: AMD Enhanced Am486DX4/Am5x86 Write-Back (486-class CPU)
real memory  = 67108864 (64 MB)

soekrisgw> uname -rms
FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE i386

Soekris board running fine as a router and firewall. I'm not at all embarrassed.

Ruben